# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S28
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28 Proceedings of the 26th General or

...of this richly gifted man for sixteen years, we also have great
cause to lament the heavy loss that his death has brought upon us, and
in deep humility to ask God to keep our dear professors in good health
and not take them from us before their time. — As in earlier, similar
visitations, so also in this case the other teachers of the Seminary
have stepped into the gap, filling it as far as possible through their
own increased labor. In place of the late Dr. Gräbner, Mr. P. Dau of
Hammond, Ind., has now been elected to the English professorship and
has also accepted the call extended to him. Yet we must recall that
Mr. D. Gräbner was originally called as professor of church history,
and only since 1893, with the Synod's consent, also administered the
English professorship left vacant by the death of the late Prof.
Lange. The board of control, together with the Reverend Faculty,
however, holds that the two professorships should again be separated.
Since the Synod already in 1893 left it to the board to take the
necessary steps whenever it deemed it advisable, we have called Mr. P.
Dau only for the English professorship, while Professors Fürbringer
and Mezger, retaining their previous subjects, share the instruction
in church history between them. In our opinion, however, the latter
arrangement should be only temporary, and a professor of his own
should be chosen for church history. The board of control would
already have arranged this election in accordance with the resolution
of 1893, if doing so were not equivalent to increasing the number of
professors, which we did not consider ourselves entitled to do without
a special resolution of the Synod. We therefore recommend that the
Synod authorize the board of control to bring about the election of a
seventh professor as soon as it considers this necessary and
advisable.

"In connection with this we have to report that, in order to comply
with a resolution of the Synod, we engaged a singing teacher for the
Seminary in January 1903, and that already the fruits of this
arrangement sufficiently justify the small expenses it required.

"We can also report on one further change that we have recently made
in the Seminary, namely in its boarding department. It is this: since
the management of the kitchen, or the boarding of the students in the
institution, had under the manner previously customary always been
attended by various difficulties whose removal never quite succeeded,
it has now, following the model...